“Cognitive Costs of Exposure to Racial Prejudice”

“The cognitive impact of exposure to ambiguous versus blatant cues to prejudice depended on subjects’ racial group. Black subjects experienced the greatest impairment when they saw ambiguous evidence of prejudice, whereas White subjects…

“Ella Taught Me: Shattering the Myth of the Leaderless Movement’

“Borrowing from my research on Baker and my own participation in social movements, I want to refute the notion that this movement is leaderless. As some contemporary youth activists such as #BlackLivesMatter co-founder…

“Of Lions and Men: Mourning Samuel DuBose and Cecil the Lion”

“The story has gone viral because it offers a strange alchemy of arrogant privilege, an animal’s being lured out of safety and slaughtered, and something onto which we can project outrage without having to contend with the…

“zoë kravitz is our august cover star”

“Kravitz knows how to treat herself — but it hasn’t always been this way. Growing up as a self-described “chubby, awkward brown girl around a bunch of blonde girls” led to struggles with bulimia and anorexia in her teens…

“Online And In Person, Bernie Sanders’ White Supporters Advance A Black Lives Matter Conspiracy”

“The basic mythology is that someone — maybe frontrunner Hillary Clinton, maybe the Republicans, maybe her billionaire backers, maybe even the FBI — is using Black…

“Rachel Dolezal & the Science of “Sounding Black””

“Since the language we speak comes from our environment rather than from our genes, the overlap between AAE and black ethnicity is blurry; not all African Americans speak AAE, and some non-African-Americans do. But like all languages and…

“SAE’s New Director of Diversity is a Black Woman. We Spoke to Her About Her New Job.”

“I did my master’s degree in college student personnel, where I served as the graduate assistant for Greek life. So I’ve been really involved in fraternity and sorority advising and…

“Black Lives Matter Movement Offers Badly Needed Lessons on Electoral Politics”

“In his speeches, Sanders has begun promising to end institutional and other forms of racism.

It is highly unlikely he would have spontaneously decided racial justice…